linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] octeontx2-af: debugfs: delete dead code

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Message-ID: <CA+sq2Ceo3z1KAuOfZYsmRMHw4dHcnrRLtkRmALNHvj3=tRJKtA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 2 Dec 2020 12:33:00 +0530
From:   Sunil Kovvuri <sunil.kovvuri@...il.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>,
        Linu Cherian <lcherian@...vell.com>,
        Geetha sowjanya <gakula@...vell.com>,
        Jerin Jacob <jerinj@...vell.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] octeontx2-af: debugfs: delete dead code

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 12:28 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
>
> These debugfs never return NULL so all this code will never be run.
>
> In the normal case, (and in this case particularly), the debugfs
> functions are not supposed to be checked for errors so all this error
> checking code can be safely deleted.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> ---

Thanks for the changes.